I always thought smoking it had a more immediate and devastating effect on the brain.
A quicker effect to be sure... about 5 seconds difference before it hits the brain, but that is quite significant
to the user.
They are the
same drug, however.
One can smoke powdered cocaine that has not been turned into crack cocaine, easily enough, anyway. I assume it is turned into crack because it's easier to market it in smaller quantities, rather than because of anything else.
I have never understood (except that I know our pols are idiots whenever the issue of drugs comes before them, I mean) why there was ANY difference in terms of penalties under the law.
The theory, that crack is treated differently under the law, just because Black urban folk smoke it, and more affluent people tended (at the time this issue was significant, I mean) to snort it, does make sense to me, frankly.
Nasty drug, cocaine.
Impossible not to become addicted to it, destructive to the personality, and I have seen far too many basically good and productive people destroy their relationships, lose their businesses and incomes all because they got seriously hooked on the high.
Back when it was first making the scene, FYI, the myth was that it was not addictive.
My impression of it is that it is addictive from the first snort, at LEAST until there is no more immediately available.
